Museum of the Moving Image

Stop motion film is one of the most creative things in the realm of media I think I ever participated in. At the Museum of the Moving Image I participated in a demo in which I sat beneath a camera which shot one frame at a time, and by using a few simple buttons, a back ground and a cut out frog I was able to create a Monty Python-like six second short. Another cool activity at the museum was the virtual flipbook. You stood in front of a digital still camera that took consecutive photos one after another creating a life-like flipbook.

This is probably the easiest and most fun I have had thus far in creating media. I never could’ve thought something as simple as moving pictures and capturing them in consecutive still pictures would amount to something so artistic ad creative. Whether it was the live flipbook or the stop-motion short. This form of media is something any person can do and I encourage those to try. The frame-by-frame demo showed a very fun way to create movement and give life to everyday objects

The whole process was done by sitting at a desk with a suspended camera above the desk that was focused on the background or backdrop of the short we made. We then placed our paper cut outs onto the desk and moved them in whichever way we wanted but moved it in small increments to help create life like motion, but you could take less frame with bigger motions to depict a more animated approach or as if segments were missing. Fun and simple with a very intricate aspect.